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OpenTimelineIO

Compositing and editorial applications get new 3D 'Time Ops' features, and updates to BlinkScript, OpenAssetIO and the AI tools.

Friday, June 14th, 2024

See all the key features in the next major update to Houdini, from modeling, animation and simulation to the COPERNICUS framework.

Friday, June 14th, 2024

Open-source pipeline for VFX and animation work is now production-ready - and available in the cloud as well as to install locally for free.

Thursday, January 18th, 2024

Ubiquitous tech for reading and writing images becomes the latest open-source project to be hosted by the visual effects industry body.

Tuesday, August 1st, 2023

Updated: Epic Games has ported the high-performance shot review tool to Windows as well as Linux.

Monday, July 31st, 2023

Updated: only "core components" of the award-winning image viewer and shot playback tool will be open-sourced, not the full product.

Thursday, August 11th, 2022

VFX industry body to oversee development of open standards for plugins and asset management.

Thursday, August 4th, 2022

Major compatibility-breaking update to the remote shot review tool adds layers system and support for OCIO 2 and OTIO.

Wednesday, April 20th, 2022

Compositing and editorial tools get support for NDI, OpenTimelineIO and new machine learning features.

Thursday, April 14th, 2022

VFX image viewer and playback system gets support for new open standard OpenTimelineIO. Sales of perpetual licences discontinued.

Tuesday, December 14th, 2021

Cinema 4D and LoUPE developers become members of industry body to promote open-source VFX tech.

Monday, August 2nd, 2021

Movie industry standards body to oversee future development of the open format for rich material data.

Friday, July 16th, 2021

Generative Scheduling and Asset Lifecycle Management are the 'future of production management'.

Monday, November 23rd, 2020